BBC DJ in car keys appeal after cyclist altercation

You could meet this bloke coming the other way!

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Little Onion - just register on twitter yourself.  You're already on here and bikeradar - so its not like you can't do it.  

Easiest way to get in touch with him surely ?

"A BBC radio DJ and Emmerdale scriptwriter has appealed to cyclists after a man on a bike allegedly took his car keys following an altercation on the road yesterday."

Tell you what Nick, you come on this website and make fulsome apology for your appalling, bullying, misguided behaviour, which endangered another road user, and report yourself to the local police station for dangerous driving, and we might just help look for your keys.

I'll certainly be keeping an eye out for them where I live.

Just to update you:

-I haven't heard from Nick Ahad yet. Does anyone have his contact details?

-Has anyone contacted him via twitter about the red car incident? He is tweeting about other stuff, but I haven't seen him mention this yet.

-I am going to go by the hypothesis that Nick is a responsible individual who would be horrified at the consequences of asking the red car to chase down the cyclist. He didn't say anything in his tweet that indicates a pathological hatred of cyclists (although he did host this radio show discussion about cycling and whether it was "is it wheely good or a pain in the saddle?!" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02tbzfl

So please road.cc community, tweet to Nick about my incident and the other half of this story. And Nick, please get in touch because you are the best witness for who the red car driver was. PM me through this website.

Emmeradale guy eh. Must be the one who allowed the mountain biker actor to wear his helmet back to front!

"Nick Ahad, whose Twitter account says he’s a scriptwriter for Emmerdale, arts journalist and radio presenter for BBC Leeds"

And presumably a fan of Top Gear.

“Having a fairly low tolerance threshold for idiots just at the minute......."  I hope you've removed all the mirrors from your house, othewise you're going to be constantly angry.

" Ahad says he reprimanded the cyclist,...."  Reprimanded him?  So he shouted something unintelligible at him through the window and expected the cyclist to just nod his head and agree?  Sorry Ahad, you are a complete f**kw*t who should not be allowed to have a licence to drive something which you assume gives you the right to tell others how to behave.

I hope the cyclist uses the keys and trashes your car and you have to use public transport and, heaven forfend, ride a bike.  The roads are safer with tw*ts like you on the bus.

To be quite hones, you should be very, very grateful that the cyclist controlled themselves enough not to drag you out of the car and beat you senseless for your crass stupidity.

"I used all my decades of journalism experience to write nothing but fact"

He was "weaving all over the road..."

REALLY? All the road? Including the other lane?

I sincerely doubt it.

Nick Ahads story doesn't add up: he passes the cyclist and yells at him. Then in return the cyclist seems to overtake him and pull in front to do the key removal.

Seems unlikely... perhaps on reflection NIck Retard will realise he probably did something to provoke....

“Short story, he lost it. Pulled in front of my car and came over to my driver’s side. As he shouted and screamed, I put my window down to try have a sensible conversation."

there are few things I find more intimidating than drivers trying to talk to you though the window while traveling beside at close quarters -- concentrate on where you are going and get past, don't distract us both while driving closer to me than is safe.

Good luck to this guy there was a sportive on using the roads around Bolton Abbey and Ilkley. There must have been hundreds of cyclist before you count those of us who just happen to be riding that way. 

And so the revolution has begun. Cyclist will no longer be pushed around.

A few things here:

-I was on my way IN to Bolton Abbey when I had my first run in with the driver of the red car, i.e. towards where the car key incident happened, not away. So this, combined with the fact that other than wearing a black top and being slim (aren't most cyclists!) I bear no resemblance to the description given, makes the mistaken identity thing even more vexing.

-if Nick Ahad is reading this, please please contact me via personal message on this website to help me

-can someone with a twitter account ask Nick Ahad to also tweet link to my original thread to help me find more witnesses? Nick Ahad may have lost his car keys, but I almost lost a lot more. If he is a decent human being, he will also contact the police with a description of the red car driver, and ask his followers to help find the driver. I am sure he would not have set the red car driver out to help him if he knew that it would end up with the driver trying repeatedly to ram another cyclist.

If 'little Onion' hasn't reported this whole carry on to the police yet, I think he should now. Whatever the truth of the  story about  Nick Ahad and the phantom keynapper, 'Red Car vigilante' needs to be brought to book for what sounds like a nasty and dangerous episode of intimidation.  If the road mentioned is the one I think it is , it's narrow, isolated and not very busy. Not somewhere you'd want to meet a nutter in a car. 

Why didn't  Red Car explain what he wanted, instead of acting like the sinister truck driver in 'Duel'?

By the way Nick, a cyclist 'weaving' in front of you isn't  a danger to you in your car if you do the sensible thing and hang back, be patient and pass when it's safe to do so. The danger occurs when you insist on trying to pass come what may. 

As 'Little Onion' reminds us, a cyclist tragically lost his life a little over a year ago at Bolton Abbey and I expect most cyclists who regularly use this stretch of road are aware of this.

"...appealed to cyclists after a man on a bike... " doesn't he know these are not the same thing?

"I used all my decades of journalism experience to write nothing but fact! I want to hear his sodding version too."  I've yet to meet a Yorkshire journalist who writes nothing but fact and how is describing the cyclists version of events as his sodding version being calm.

He can't be a very good jounalist as he missed all the Police advice about not keeping your car and house keys together.

Still he can look forward to replacing the locks in his car and his house as someone has them and now knows who they belong to so can help themselves to his car and property whenever they feel like it.

Love the quote “Having a fairly low tolerance threshold for idiots just at the minute", so having  decided that the cyclist was an idiot, Nick Ahad decided to have a rational conversation with the cyclist, sorry Nick but I don't believe you, this sounds just like another bad Emmerdale script, full of fantasy and badly written.

 Call me a cynic but this guy's story sounds like complete bollocks.  We all know how these situations play out and only on extremely rare occasions is the "calm and collected" motorist guilty of nothing.  I'd put money on him being a mouthy idiot who doesn't understand a cyclist's needs, ranting and raving from his car, and having the misfortune of doing it to a cyclist who won't take his shit.

Maybe Nick could try cycling for a year and see if he never causes tailbacks due to the nature of our infrastructure and the state of our roads. For the record, how many people were in the car with Nick? Bet he has a 4/5 seater and is travelling along with just himself in it. Then he wonders why tailbacks happen.

Actually scratch all that, what I really want to say is..

Massive douche in massive pram who writes massively sh*t soap opera.

"Nick Ahad, whose Twitter account says he’s a scriptwriter for Emmerdale..."

Who knew they had script? I assumed they were just making it up!

What a strange turn of events!

I'm Shaun Murray, who called Nick Ahad out originally on twitter. It goes back a bit before the quote above. Originally, I'd put it to him that he was reaping the "reward" for being the driver that attracted the cyclist's ire because of close passes and that his keys were probably in a bush which is where I've thrown keys in the past instead of risking being followed by an angry motorist. I got called all sorts of names by Nick of course.

Cyclists have all heard we've been weaving about all over the road when it's usually just defensive cycling or even just not cycling in the gutter like some drivers expect us to. Nick still insists otherwise; that the original cyclist that stole his keys was cycling dangerously.

Who knows what the actual origin of the dispute was but it's just awful that Little Onion got the aftermath.

You know, this used to be a hell of a good country...

Nobody comes out of this very well, except the little onion. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was yet another party involved, an earlier driver who almost killed the first cyclist, or maybe saw his swarthy complexion and shouted "Go back to ****land" to him.

Must say, this is quite good because Little Onion got their story out first before Mr Ahad decided to twitter (tweet? - sorry, social media not my strong point) about it.  Just shows, as EK Spinner says, how quickly everything can escalate.

Got to say, I still think that Red Car Couple deserve a good talking to here (maybe we ask them for their Deputy Badges back?).

Quote:

a cyclist was causing a tailback by weaving all over the road to try prevent people over taking him

I call bollocks on that; the cyclist was probably just avoiding potholes, drain covers and debris in the ride while being blown around a bit by the wind.

So we have 3 Vigilanties and an innocent victim.

The first driver decided he should be policing the roads after objecting to the cyclists action

the Cyclist then believes he has the right to imobilise the car involved thus raising the tension of the situation

And the second driver who believes he has the right to chase and confront the cyclist involved.

Then Poor "Little Onion" becomes the victim because he happens to be on a bike and the second driver has miidentified him.

If people would just Calm the F**£ down out there these things wouldn't happen.

THough it is difficult to remain calm in these situations especially after a hard ride and the adrenalin is already pumping before the conflict starts

On Nick Ahad's twitter, he said that he sent the red car after the cyclist with his keys, so I presume that he knows them. Tell him to PM me on this website, so I can report them to the police